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SANTA ANA — The Canyon boys basketball team used tenacious defense and timely shooting to beat Foothill 56-54 on Friday to add more drama to the Crestview League race. The Comanches (21-5, 3-1) are now tied for first place with the No. 7-ranked Knights (23-3, 3-1), and each team has two league game remaining. Canyon,…
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SAN JOSE — All week Isabeau Levito had reminded herself to keep emotions suppressed. Don’t get distracted, she told herself, by “the little things.” It wasn’t until the end of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships women’s competition that the New Jersey 15-year-old finally let her emotions go. “I was just so glad I finally did…
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A Disneyland tradition for more than half a century that brought the sounds of trumpets, saxophones and drums marching down Main Street U.S.A. has come to a sudden end with the abrupt cancellation of a beloved college music program. The Disneyland All-American College Band program that has been an institution at the Anaheim theme park…
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By MIKE CRANSTON The Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. — The UCLA women’s basketball team is looking to get one of its most important players turned around, while Colorado is celebrating after getting a winning basket from an unlikely source. Kindyll Wetta made a corner 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds left in overtime to snap a tie…
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By JOHN COON The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The USC women’s basketball team was done in by a familiar face on Friday night. Alissa Pili, who spent her first three seasons at USC before transferring to Utah, scored 21 points and Kennedy McQueen added 17 behind five 3-pointers to lead the ninth-ranked Utes…
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BREA — The El Modena boys basketball team entered its North Hills League game against Brea Olinda on Friday knowing a victory would put the team in control of the race for the league title. The Vanguards got it done with long-range shooting, defense and rebounding in a 60-54 victory over the Wildcats at Brea…
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A man and woman were arrested this week after they allegedly tossed 30,000 fentanyl pills from a car during a pursuit that began in Costa Mesa, police said. Police pulled over a 2016 Ford Edge shortly before 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, near Santa Ana Avenue in Costa Mesa for not making a traffic stop,…
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Leaders of Southern California law enforcement agencies spoke out Friday evening, Jan. 27, following the video release of the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis. Because of the actions of “five former law enforcement officers, an inexcusable tragedy transpired in Memphis, Tennessee, that resulted in the death of Tyre Nichols,” LA County Sheriff Robert…
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Five days after the Star Ballroom Dance Studio mass shooting, businesses along Monterey Park’s Garvey Avenue have steadfastly remained open amid shattered nerves and foot traffic that is unusually light. A space that should be vibrant, still basking in the shine of Lunar New Year celebrations is instead wrapped in somber apprehension as well as…
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By Colleen Slevin | Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. — A man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket nearly two years ago remains mentally incompetent to stand trial, a judge said Friday. Court proceedings against Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 23, have been paused for more than a year after Judge Ingrid Bakke first…
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